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We Won!!! - UPDATE July 7, 2018

It's official. A contest official emailed the Garbers that they won and will get the $1,829.00 (listed on the site for $1,499.00) Pono ukulele from Hawaii in a few days. Click to view.Tasha shedding her winter coatThey said they had checked out the voting, knew about the Lily Fans and their support for the Garbers, and that the Garbers had done a lot to promote bear research and education. They wrote that they were glad it was going to people like them.

Meanwhile, I've been looking at names Lily Fans have suggested. So far, I like "Lily's Hope" because I think it will be a conversation starter when people ask the Garbers how the ukulele got that name. And what a story to tell!

Here at the Wildlife Research Institute, we are still without a land line, internet/email/WiFi, and am told it will not be fixed until July 20th or maybe even the 24th. The phone people can't predict. So I'm not fully up on what is going on, but I understand that the Pond Chatters have been capturing good action videos of the four bears:

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